DB Click: Immunisation, Vaccines, and Polio
February 2010
For people seeking to address immunisation, vaccines, and polio and development issues and opportunities.
DB CLICK: Immunisation, Vaccines, and Polio updates you on recent immunisation, vaccines, polio and development initiatives including programme activities, awards, evaluation and research results, networks, books, other materials, planning ideas, change theories and other information recently placed on The Communication Initiative website.
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4 Vacant Positions within UNICEF for Polio Specialists:
Chief, Communication for Development – UNICEF – Kabul, Afghanistan
Application Deadline: February 26, 2010
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Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (Polio) – UNICEF – Abuja, Nigeria
Application Deadline: February 26, 2010
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Data Analyst (Polio) – UNICEF – Abuja, Nigeria
Application Deadline: February 26, 2010
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Communication for Development Specialist, focus on immunisation and polio eradication – UNICEF – Islamabad, Pakistan
Application Deadline: March 5, 2010
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1. Executive Summary: Independent Evaluation of Major Barriers to Interrupting Poliovirus Transmission
This October 2009 Executive Summary offers an overview of an independent, external evaluation of the Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative (GPEI). It provides background, current statistics, and an assessment of GPEI work, as detailed in each of the 5 full reports from the evaluation teams focused on: Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the international spread of polio…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307821/292
2. Sindh Polio Communication Review Recommendations
This November 2009 document provides background and detail on recommendations for polio prevention work in Pakistan, presented at the conclusion of the Sindh Polio Communication Review meeting in Karachi, Pakistan, November 2009. It reviews communication challenges and provides guidance on improving specific areas of the overall communication strategy…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307589/292
3. Independent Evaluation of Major Barriers to Interrupting Poliovirus Transmission in India
This India-based section of the October 2009 GPEI report states that the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) has established «a superbly trained vaccination group and developed novel approaches to reach marginalized groups and identify newborns in the community.» The team concluded that «the high coverage observed reflected the most thorough well managed field work that team members had ever seen…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307899/292
4. Report on Barriers to Polio Eradication in Nigeria: Independent Evaluation Team for Nigeria
This Nigeria-based section of the October 2009 GPEI document reports that «[a]fter meeting with several key officials and Emirs at the various levels of government, the Evaluation Team found that, as a result of efforts such as the Abuja Declaration and advocacy campaigns…the programme is now moving in the right direction, and with further support as described below, is capable of achieving polio eradication…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307868/292
5. Evaluation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Report on the Independent Evaluation of the Major Barriers to Interrupting Poliovirus Transmission in Afghanistan
This Afghanistan-based section of the October 2009 GPEI evaluation finds that Afghanistan’s polio eradication initiative (PEI) has achieved remarkable success in an increasingly challenging environment. Evaluators explain that these successes are due to «a very high level of political commitment, coordination by partners, and technical quality of PEI team work…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307861/292
6. Independent Evaluation of Major Barriers to Interrupting Poliovirus Transmission in Pakistan
The Pakistani evaluation included in the October 2009 GPEI report finds strong national political commitment to implementing polio campaigns. Political blessings and the presence of high-level policymakers at campaign launches have raised the profile of polio vaccination. The working relationships and coordination between the government, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are positive…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307853/292
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Please VOTE in our current Polio-specific Poll:
In conflict-prone polio endemic areas, which do you view as the best ways to reach un- or under-immunised children? [choose a maximum of 3]
Through:
* Negotiating access with parties in conflict.
* Advocacy efforts with religious leaders.
* Health camps that provide immunisation with more comprehensive care opportunities in secure areas.
* Media campaigning with information, education, and communication (IEC) materials in local languages, as well as door-to-door neighbourhood dissemination.
* Negotiating ceasefires during immunisation campaigns.
* Sports events with media campaigning.
* Woman-to-woman interventions in homes.
VOTE and COMMENT at http://www.comminit.com/en/node/283389/292
RESULTS thus far (February 18 2010):
19%: Negotiating access with parties in conflict.
18%: Woman-to-woman interventions in homes.
18%: Health camps that provide immunisation with more comprehensive care opportunities in secure areas.
18%: Media campaigning with information, education, and communication (IEC) materials in local languages, as well as door-to-door neighbourhood dissemination.
13%: Negotiating ceasefires during immunisation campaigns.
12%: Advocacy efforts with religious leaders.
2%: Sports events with media campaigning.
7. Fight against Polio Takes a Step Forward
Emphasising the value of partnership at this December 2009 UNICEF-convened panel discussion, panelists stressed that the battle against polio may be won or lost depending on how well all sectors of society can work together, including governmental and nongovernmental agencies and religious organisations, if the political will is there and if there is trust in the GPEI partners and confidence in the solutions offered…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307794/292
8. Behavioural Interventions for Reducing the Transmission and Impact of Influenza A (H1N1) Virus: A Framework for Communication Strategies
This June 2009 framework from WHO and the UNICEF is designed to address those institutions developing communication interventions to reduce the spread and impact of the H1N1 virus (also called swine flu). It focuses on control measures at the individual and family level…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307108
9. Putting Planning Into Practice: The Communications Response to H1N1
A Global Communications Conference Sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization and the United States Department of Health and Human Services: Conference Report and Conclusions
This July 2009 report summarises the key points from this PAHO and US Department of Health and Human Services conference of international and national public health communicators and risk communications experts who shared information about their respective H1N1 communications efforts and experiences…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305798
10. Guiding Principles for Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Communication: CDC’s Response to Date and Preparing for What May Be Ahead
This July 2009 presentation outlines key elements from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s communication response to date. The CDC has been guided by several principles, including: acknowledge the situation early; maintain transparency; identify uncertainties and the unpredictable nature of influenza; and offer anticipatory guidance…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305729
11. Congo’s Paraplegic Musicians: Lullabies of the Abandoned
In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the disabled are in need of a social safety net, so four paraplegic singers, disabled due to polio, an adopted street youth, and a handful of accompanying musicians spawned a band called Staff Benda Bilili, which provides a safe haven for street youth and a platform for messages on child vaccination and for the needs of the underclass of paraplegics whose disabilities have resulted from the breakdown in the administration of polio vaccine to the economically poor of the DRC…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305146/292
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